Nicholas Mennuti

Weaponized

Nicholas Mennuti

Weaponized

UPC: 9780316199902

Release Date: 6/17/2014

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Biographical note:

David Guggenheim wrote the 2012 Denzel Washington hit Safe House for Universal, and the Nicolas Cage thriller Medallion. He also penned the action film Narco Sub for 20th Century Fox and Uncharted, based on the popular video game, for Sony. Weaponized is his first novel. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.

Nicholas Mennuti is also a graduate of the Dramatic Writing department at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. His short stories have appeared in Agni and Skidrow Penthouse, and are forthcoming in The Ledge and Conjunctions.

Main description:

Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the U.S. to escape the chareges of unauthorized surveillance filed against himself and his former boss, billionaire government contractor Christopher Chandler, Kyle's hiding in Cambodia, living on borrowed time.

When a mysterious stranger named Julian Robinson walks into Kyle's favorite café and offers to swap passports with Kyle, Kyle can't believe his luck. Robinson looks so much like him. The swap seems almost too good to be true. Unfortunately for Kyle, it is.

This fateful decision opens a Pandora's Box of intrigue and suspense. Kyle quickly he finds himself being pursued by Russian oligarchs, Chinese operatives, the CIA, and a beautiful woman trained to kill; because Robinson isn't who he seemed. And time is running out for Kyle to discover who he is.

Review quote:

"[A] freewheeling thriller [with] Graham Greene-ish erudition and atmosphere."—New York Times Book Review

Review quote:

"[An] excellent first novel . . . The authors have their fingers on the
pulse of contemporary life . . . The rare suspense novel that will
genuinely surprise jaded genre readers."—Publishers Weekly (starred)

Review quote:

"Applying postmodern polish to the foreign intrigue of Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, WEAPONIZED leaves an imprint with its lively cast of characters, pungent locale and dizzy plotting."—Kirkus Review